In
response to a felicitous greeting received
from my good old college professor in Pakistan, I wrote back:

Best
wishes for you and your family too in this month of blessings
[Ramadan] – the election of such a distinguished president must
also be a source of tremendous joy all around – “happy-happy!”

And
then, almost as an after thought, I composed the following monologue
in the postscript to further elaborate upon my cryptic use of
“happy-happy”! I had borrowed that phrase from another
close friend in Pakistan whom I had called right after Mr. Zardari's
election, and upon asking him how he felt, he had sardonically
replied: “happy-happy”! That phrase captures and
hides a wellspring of emotion and resignation to fate for an average
Pakistani, and after I had written the phrase down, I felt I had to
intellectualize it in order to lend a bit greater comprehension to
the human condition which trivially seems to cause silent acceptance,
or acquiescence, to that hope filled state. In fact, I have always
found the similarities between the Pakistani and the American public
to be rather striking in the state of their voluntary servitude,
despite their vast disparity in affluence, life-style, and
“modernity”. So I expounded upon my humble take on my
friend's “happy-happy” to my respected professor –
and all as a postscript, for indeed, ironically, intellectualizing
any human condition is but a mere postscript in its impact on
ameliorating it. The history of mankind is evidence of this truism.

Is
man even worse-off than even the lowly animal born free, in the best
of circumstance? Wherefore the “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”
[the best of creation – an attribution by the Qur'an to man]? I
see scant evidence of this lofty Islamic theory in practice. As a
scientist, theories are only as good as their ability
to explain the empirical evidence – right?

Please
see this book
written by a 22 year old in 16th century France (1552 AD) named
Etienne de La Boétie
if you have the time: “The Politics of Obedience: The
Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”. You can find its
translation in English on the Mises
Institute website [1]. It's only 81 pages long and can be
read in one afternoon. Here is an extended excerpt from the
introduction [not written by its author],
and the one main concluding observation reached by the young author
in his own words:

Begin
Excerpt

The
Discourse of Voluntary Servitude is lucidly and coherently structured
around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into the nature
not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus itself.
Many medieval writers had attacked tyranny, but La Boétie
delves especially deeply into its nature, and into the nature of
State rule itself. This fundamental insight was that every tyranny
must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In
short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason,
acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no
tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long endure. Hence, a
government does not have to be popularly elected to enjoy general
public support; for general public support is in the very nature of
all governments that endure, including the most oppressive of
tyrannies. The tyrant is but one person, and could scarcely command
the obedience of another person, much less of an entire country, if
most of the subjects did not grant their obedience by their own
consent.

This,
then, becomes for La Boétie the central problem of political
theory: why in the world do people consent to their own enslavement?
La Boétie cuts to the heart of what is, or rather should be,
the central problem of political philosophy: the mystery of civil
obedience. Why do people, in all times and places, obey the commands
of the government, which always constitutes a small minority of the
society? To La Boétie the spectacle of general consent to
despotism is puzzling and appalling:

"I
should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so
many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer
under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give
him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have
the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no
injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than
contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that
one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a
million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not
constrained by a greater multitude than they..."

And
this mass submission must be out of consent rather than simply out of
fear:

"Shall
we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? ... If a hundred, if a
thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we not rather say
that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him,
and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than
cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred
provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a
single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction
of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice? ...
When a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect
themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called
cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth. . . . What
monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be
called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough .
. . ?"

It
is evident from the above passages that La Boétie is bitterly
opposed to tyranny and to the public's consent to its own subjection.
He makes clear also that this opposition is grounded on a theory of
natural law and a natural right to liberty. In childhood, presumably
because the rational faculties are not yet developed, we obey our
parents; but when grown, we should follow our own reason, as free
individuals. As La Boétie puts it: "If we led our lives
according to the ways intended by nature and the lessons taught by
her, we should be intuitively obedient to our parents; later we
should adopt reason as our guide and become slaves to nobody."
Reason is our guide to the facts and laws of nature and to humanity's
proper path, and each of us has "in our souls some native seed
of reason, which, if nourished by good counsel and training, flowers
into virtue, but which, on the other hand, if unable to resist the
vices surrounding it, is stifled and blighted." And reason, La
Boétie adds, teaches us the justice of equal liberty for all.
For reason shows us that nature has, among other things, granted us
the common gift of voice and speech. Therefore, "there can be no
further doubt that we are all naturally free," and hence it
cannot be asserted that "nature has placed some of us in
slavery." Even animals, he points out, display a natural
instinct to be free. But then, what in the world "has so,
denatured man that he, the only creature really born to be free,
lacks the memory of his original condition and the desire to return
to it?"

La
Boétie's celebrated and creatively
original call for civil disobedience, for mass non-violent resistance
as a method for the overthrow of tyranny, stems directly from the
above two premises: the fact that all rule rests on the consent of
the subject masses, and the great value of natural liberty. For if
tyranny really rests on mass consent, then the obvious means for its
overthrow is simply by mass withdrawal of that consent. The weight of
tyranny would quickly and suddenly collapse under such a non-violent
revolution.

Thus,
after concluding that all tyranny rests on popular consent, La Boétie
eloquently concludes that "obviously there is no need of
fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically
defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement."
Tyrants need not be expropriated by force; they need only be deprived
of the public's continuing supply of funds and resources. The more
one yields to tyrants, La Boétie points out, the stronger and
mightier they become. But if the tyrants "are simply not
obeyed," they become "undone and as nothing." La
Boétie then exhorts the "poor, wretched, and stupid
peoples" to cast off their chains by refusing to supply the
tyrant any further with the instruments of their own oppression. The
tyrant, indeed, has nothing more than the power that you confer upon
him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon
you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many
arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet
that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not
your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How
would he dare assail you if he had not cooperation from you?

La
Boétie concludes his exhortation by assuring the masses that
to overthrow the tyrant they need not act, nor shed their blood. They
can do so "merely by willing to be free." In short,

“Resolve
to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you
place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you
support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great
Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight
and break in pieces.”

---
End Excerpt

And
to comprehend how La Boétie's insight has been cleverly
employed to checkmate the common man in the
West by the same tyrant and his exponents,
who in these times, conveniently install the despot as the front-face
of a secretive oligarchy, see “Weapons
of Mass Deception – the Master Social Science”
[2]. It is the profound lack of understanding of this latter
discourse that today enables "Voluntary Servitude" in the
affluent West. No amount of rehearsing Boétie's commonsensical
platitudes, the profound Ten Commandments, or even the Biblical
Golden Rule “Do unto others as you have others do unto you”,
is going to empower Plato's “Prisoners
of the Cave” [3]. For indeed, “none are
more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free.” Only astute political science can effectively
counter devilish political science! See for instance “How
to derail 'imperial mobilization' and preempt the crossing of the
Nuclear Rubicon” [4].

But
what about the “Voluntary Servitude” in the East and the
Global South that is egregiously loaded with almost 3/4th of all the
natural resources of the planet and is yet also home to 3/4th of the
world's poverty stricken humanity? Surely the hungry man unable to
feed his family knows the price of “cake” quite well? And
yet, he continues to persist in enabling his own servitude? What
prevents La Boétie's prescription today when the same
principle exemplarily brought down the majesty of the British Empire
in its own Jewel in the Crown less than four score years past?

The
answer must remain the same as during La Boétie's time –
the threshold of the masses' tolerance hasn't been crossed yet –
the poor among mankind having been endowed with infinite patience and
eternal hope! It is this “hope”, and man's misplaced
optimism due to it, that primarily enables one's “Voluntary
Servitude”. Therefore, despite the simple mechanism of
overthrowing it – albeit only collectively – being quite
naturally available to man as rationally demonstrated by Boétie,
“hope” perniciously incapacitates
him.

The
omission of this empirical observation of eternal “hope”
in man – also a key to his survival by averting despondency
during misfortunes – in La Boétie's political discourse
can perhaps be attributed to the author's youthful inexperience at
the time when he composed his remarkably astute treatise, and for
which, he may surely be forgiven! Perhaps this is why Boétie
did not publish the discourse as he may have intuitively felt its
incompleteness (although some others have offered more exoteric
reasons for it such as concern for his own personal safety from the
tyrants of the day).

As
with the surfeit of anything, man's natural affinity towards “hope”
becomes his enduring anchor into his own long-term “Voluntary
Servitude”. It is a natural “opiate” that
apparently only exists in humankind. It is far more universal in its
sedative effect than any imagined by Karl Marx when he mistakenly
blamed man's tolerance for his own exploitation, upon his obsession
with “religion”! Far transcending the realm of social
inculcation, but often exploited by it, “hope” appears to
be innate in every individual human being!

Lest
one might be mistaken that this opiate is only for the backward
humanity of the Global South, the miserable poor in the religion and
spirituality imbued East that is perennially “waiting for
Allah” or “Karma”, the recent statistics for the
United States, the exemplar of advanced civilization out to teach the
rest of the world how to live, exposes that misconception
[5]:

“A
recent survey of this group by the Washington Post, the Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University conducted this past
June looked at the beliefs of adults ages 18 to 64 working 30 or more
hours a week, not self-employed and who earned no more than $27,000
in 2007. The results show a fascinating dichotomy. Though there is
widespread pain and discontent there is also a stubborn faith in the
American dream despite little help from government.

Ninety
percent of this group sees the current economy negatively, either not
so good or poor, with 52 percent feeling financially insecure and 50
percent feeling less secure than a few years ago. The fractions
saying they have difficulty affording basic things are severe,
including: 88 percent that cannot save money for college or other
education for their children, 82 percent paying for gasoline or other
transportation costs, 81 percent saving money for retirement, 65
percent paying for health care and health insurance, 65 percent
handling child care, close to 60 percent paying credit card bills,
monthly utility bills and rent or mortgage costs, and 47 percent
buying food. Three quarters say it has gotten harder to find good
jobs and nearly that fraction for finding affordable health care, and
68 percent finding decent, affordable housing.

In
the past year this group has had to take many actions to make ends
meet, including 70 percent that cut electricity use and home heating;
62 percent that took an extra job or worked extra hours, 51 percent
that postponed medical or dental care and 50 percent that took money
out of savings or retirement funds.

All
this sounds pretty bleak. But are these people mad and pessimistic?
Not exactly.

An
amazing 69 percent are hopeful about their personal financial
situation, 59 percent believe they are more likely over the next few
years to move up in terms of their social class, 59 percent believe
that their children will have a standard of living much or somewhat
better than theirs, and 56 percent think they will achieve the
American dream in their lifetime.

[...]
The unmistakable conclusion from all these data is that no rebellion
against the power elites running the two-party plutocracy seems
likely. If the bottom 40 percent of Americans in terms of income
still believe in the American dream and change-spouting politicians
like Obama, it is hard to believe that the
more affluent middle 40 percent of the population are ready to
support more radical change through political rebellion.

[...]
Forget all that nonsense about the proletariat. Most Americans use
their faith in God or religion or conventional politicians to cope,
even in some of the most insecure economic times in American history.
They remain overly confident in voting as the path to change. The
ruling class has successfully used propaganda to dumb down and
manipulate most of the public because delusion has become the opiate
of the masses.”

And
what appears to hasten or preempt man's natural threshold for bearing
infinite pain due to his infantile lingering “hope” for
better times, is always inspiring leadership! Leaders courageous
enough to boldly assert “enough”, with a vision and a
plan, before that inevitable turning-point can be naturally reached
when only the uncontrolled mob with nothing more to lose takes over –
as it did in the French Revolution which subsequently
spawned the tyranny of Napoleon!

Which
is also why, the devilish hectoring hegemons, well versed in
political science based state-craft and Machiavelli, Orwell and
Huxley, also purposefully cultivate and
promote the corrupt and the co-opted feudals
to serve as false leaders of any plebeian peoples. These leaders are
carefully manufactured to only serve their own larger class interests
as client-states of higher authorities – the puppetmasters.
If a genuine leader emerges who can mobilize a nation towards
un-servitude, who can inspire and energize, he is assassinated as an
example to all others.

And
then, the 'ubermensch' will come on their white horse wielding “shock
and awe” to “save” the “the
very petri dish of international terrorism”
[15] from becoming the new “Terror
Central” [16] and threatening the civilized world
due to its instability and civil war! That ominous
“saving”
[17] is already in its advanced
setup stages [18] even as I write this. Many front-faces
have been lined up who will retain and maintain the core-lie to
continually enable the 'ubermensch' quest for “full spectrum
dominance” – that of 'war on terror' – and the
present incarnation with Mr. Zardari is just another “happy-happy”
ever-smiling face! [19] But a more insidious face than the Generals'
before, in order to present the more acceptable illusion of freedom
and democracy as that is what is being demanded by the constituency
to be controlled. Well, let's give it to them under the praetorian
tutelage of a re-incarnated seasoned Godfather who can be relied upon
to obediently do the master's bidding on
account of natural
inclination [20] to usurp
[21] and plunder
[22], with plenty of skeletons in the
closet to keep a strong check on the desired strategic direction when
necessary! [23]

Observing
the events of the day (September
10, 2008) [24] being rehearsed with all the pomp and
majestic show – complete with horse-drawn buggy and kisses on
the cheeks and all – before the applauding world with Mr.
Zardari taking the highest oath of office in Pakistan, reminded me of
the opening wedding scene from Mario Puzo's
movie the Godfather, attended by the motley of morality-challenged,
all dressed in their finest Sunday outfits. The only thing that
appeared to be missing during the festivities in the non-movie
version was the camera zooming into private meetings in beautifully
shuttered oak and mahogany paneled
darkened rooms behind closed doors on how the “territory”
was to be divided up, who would get what loot, and who would be
assigned to make which offer that couldn't be refused! Even the
fictional Michael Coreleone could not go so
“legit” as the real life enactment! Once made “legit”
and cleansed into a “virgin”, is it slanderous to recall
the past? None of the afore-stated staid
recollections from newspaper reports even begin to scratch the real
surface of the actual experiences of many Pakistanis under Asif Ali
Zardari during the two short hereditary
reigns of his beloved wife. His popular nom de guerre of “Mr.
ten percent” among the general public hardly did him justice.
And neither could Al Capone ever be charged
for anything other than tax evasion! Even that opportunity no longer
exists – so long as the godfather dutifully continues America's
“war on terror”!

The
earnest columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee
of the Daily Dawn had repeatedly noted in his many weekly columns
that the former President, General Musharraf, was the best among the
worst of the lot, and while I never agreed with the famous
octogenarian of Pakistan on the notion of choosing the lesser of two
evils from a carefully constrained artificial choice forcibly
inflicted upon the suffering populace, I do agree with that
sentiment. But not because of anything Ardeshir Cowasjee ever
observed.

But
because, with President Zardari at the helm, and aided in his mission
by the mindlessly silly and horrendously greedy Parliamentarians who
turn on a penny, Goethe's notion of servitude – “none
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free” – is being attempted in Pakistan under a
godfather-civilian ruler as an alternative to the brute servitude
under a military-general that was beginning to wear thin with the
people! The latter however, in comparison, was surely a superior
option to serve under, as there was at least no illusion of freedom!
The cycle of false-leaders is quite revealing even as it continually
fosters only the imperial agendas.

Let's
snapshot from the setup that began this “imperial
mobilization”: The democratically
elected Nawaz Sharif being replaced by
Musharraf in 1999 to acquire a “unity of command” over
the client-state, and the pubic showing enormous relief at being
rescued from their misery by a military dictator who seemed to wanna
fix everything for them – for the people wanted someone strong
to lead them after all the previous debacles under “democracy”;
9 years later Musharraf now being replaced by Zardari and the people
once again showing even more relief because they wanted to be led by
democracy once again after all the debacles under military
dictatorship that has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy
and dismemberment! The new “democratic” leader now
appears to be equally keen on fixing everything for the people, but
marches quickly in lock-step to the same beat as his autocratic
predecessors!

While
the people are kept busy in these 'katputli
tamashas' [puppet shows] expertly crafted for them by the Rand
Corporation and the Pentagon in America, no element of “imperial
mobilization” is ever left to chance. It is just as
precision an operation in Pakistan as 911 was in New York! If a
military strongman is needed to enable the 'war on terror' by
nurturing “jihadis” with the attack on Afghanistan, the
climate is created to install him. If destabilization
is needed to enable dismemberment of a former frontline
client-state which has outlived its usefulness on the 'Grand
Chessboard' in its present configuration, faux democracy is crafted
to bring the destabilization to its
critical mass. The concept of years of planning and long consistent
execution times, as is political science based state-craft, is
entirely alien to the impetuous Pakistani mind. Brought up over the
past sixty years to only expect uncertainty, loot and plunder,
disappearances and oppression, a Pakistani
has become mentally attuned to going to sleep at night not knowing
who will be in-charge the next morning (or
where one might wake up)!

Thus,
the notion that a devilish multi-year precision planning, and such
state-craft sophistication as the 'dialectics of deception' described
by Project
Humanbeingsfirst in many of its reports, is even possible,
is entirely foreign to the relatively simple, feudalistic Pakistani
genius. Therefore, 'katputli tamashas' and frequent change of Acts
and actors is great for the masses – for many couldn't care
less who is in power, tied as most have become to their daily bread
and hope for miraculous deliverance!

The
exuberance shown by the world's leaders in rushing to congratulate
the new Mr. 100% Pakistani President into their fold – one who
had candidly noted:
'The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), if it comes into power,
must persuade the people that the fight against militants is “our
war”, not just America’s war' [25] – and all of
them together agreeing to maintain that enabling core-lie of
“imperial mobilization” intact, amply demonstrates
this.

This
coddling of a person who was further reported
brazenly proclaiming “Asif Ali Zardari told a British TV
that political agreements were not words of Qura’an
which could not be changed with the changing political scenario.
According to the TV, he was asked about his shifting positions and
not fulfilling his promises to which he said there was nothing final
in politics and positions could change with the changing situations.”
[26], makes President Zardari actually the best qualified among the
lot for the job of presiding over the dismembering of Pakistan! One
who need not, by one's own admission, honor any agreements one may
sign, or the deals one may make, with one's own countrymen in order
to gain their trust! Wow! What an egregiously blatant mocking of a
peoples quite accustomed to “Voluntary Servitude”. Notice
that there are no riots in the streets in Pakistan, no protests, and
while the nation's ruling elite is politically and visibly united in
celebrating the victory of democracy over dictatorship, the poor man
is kept busy trying to barely survive!

Finally,
one can rightfully claim, that there is little difference between the
peoples of America, and the peoples of Pakistan – united they
do stand in “hope” and inaction for a better tomorrow, as
the rich plunderers laugh their way to the bank!

Indeed,
I hate to suggest once again that all this was plainly manifest when
Musharraf had issued his own proclamations paving the way for PPP and
Bhutto to come to power with the NRO and the sacking of the judges by
crafting his unilateral Executive Orders, which like in America, once
made into law, become effectively irreversible. I had plainly written
on December
21, 2007 in Project Humanbeingsfirst's warning to the
Pakistani peoples “Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the
'Grand Chessboard'!” [27] (while most of the Pakistani and
Western press appeared not to have ever been students of political
science, history, or even forensic science – the only reason
most among them are likely called journalists, the press, the
newsmedia, is surely only because they carry suitably designed
business cards or are rich enough to own the media – there are
a few exceptions of course, as shown by this oped in the Nation of
February
22, 2008 [28]; and I have no idea why the rest of the
respected columnists like Ardeshir Cowasjee remained silent, despite
my urgent and repeated pleas to them to at least comment on the
warning in their own soap-boxes in order to draw attention to it, as
no English newspaper in Pakistan was willing to publish it or any of
the letters
to editor [29] that I sent them before I gave up on
further wasting my time; I had also, in my earnestness, foolishly
apprised two newly retired 3-star Pakistani
Generals in Islamabad of these matters over a long private lunch
conversation, with obviously little impact and much wasted effort):

“#2.
The present 'elections' in Pakistan are a manifest fraud under the
orchestration of the 'hectoring hegemons' themselves, and must be
abandoned in the greater national interest of the peoples of Pakistan
themselves.

This
mantra of elections is replete with red herrings craftily synthesized
to maintain Pakistan as a servile client-state in order to carry on
with the same bold 'imperial designs' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. It
is merely the rebottling of the same old wine in a different bottle.
It will surely be legitimately conducted, with no apparent riggings,
and duly approved by all the impartial international observers to
give the artful elections an official international legitimacy.

It
is quite immaterial who wins in these elections. The laws and the
judiciary of the nation have already been reconstituted under the
umbrella of 'emergency' to enable the nation to carry on unfettered
in its primary objective of fighting the 'War on Terror' as an
obedient patsy client-state – and hence to carry on in its own
devilishly crafted suicide!

These
elections will conveniently 'elect' a legislature whose leaders have
also been deftly primed by the 'hectoring hegemons' themselves! And
the highest executive office in the land is already retained in the
hands of the same old 'wine' drinker.

Thus
all the 'ducks' are still lined up perfectly in a row, just as they
were on the very eve of 911.

#3.
The people of Pakistan must fully reconcile with the Military of
Pakistan immediately - the reconciliation being of the type that was
witnessed by the surprised world between the oppressors and the
oppressed in South Africa.

Not
the type that is being pushed through the NRO to legitimize looters,
plunderers, and rapists of the nation in order to staff the
legislature with the made by 'CFR in the USA' and made by 'RIIA in
the UK' Pakistani politicians with at best criminal credentials, and
at worst, treasonous ones!

The
military of Pakistan, as an institution, is indeed also the only hope
of Pakistan as we must survive on the 'Grand Chessboard' and only
they hold the cards. What is about to befall the nation can also only
be averted by them. The civilians and the Military must unite –
immediately – for overarching national considerations that far
transcend individual grievances, ego trips, and past transgressions.

Thus
the civilians must abandon all meaningless and mindless protests
which are in any case devoid of any fundamental comprehension of the
reality du jour on the 'Grand Chessboard' – none of them seek
fundamental changes to our fate, nor do they appear to fathom what
such changes are even supposed to be - and are merely only chasing
red herrings that have been deftly crafted as perhaps per the
Machiavellian 'technique of infamy'. ...

These
protests are needlessly continually giving the Western public the
impression of 'instability' which only adds to the credibility of the
various pretextual mantras to come 'deliver' us from ourselves! There
is much more at stake than to usher in a thin veneer of faux
'democracy' which is all that these protests are unwittingly
accomplishing as can be empirically witnessed by anyone with half a
brain.

#4
Instead of the faux 'democracy', the Pakistani Military rulers on
their part must now rise to the challenge of genuine patriotism and
as genuine guardians of the nation and help carve a genuine
Democracy, with the capital D and without the quotes, as briefly
outlined in “Re-Imagining Pakistan's Defenses – Open
Letter to a Pakistani General”, and as explored in “Saving
Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central' ”.

Briefly,
that entails crafting a genuine Constitution under a bilateral
'social contract' between the people and the state, that is
subsequently ratified by the people of Pakistan through a direct
referendum vote. This can be accomplished within a few short months
if there is the national and military will that understands the
urgency of the matter and executes on it by gathering the right
peoples to craft it!”

Item
2 above, in bold, appears amazingly prescient – right? The new
“wine drinker” makes little impact on the journey
however. And we observe that Musharraf withdrew
[30] without rectifying any of his own power-shenanigans
in favor of the new “wine drinker” whom he had himself
enabled and pardoned with the NRO that has lent new meaning to the
adage 'steal only in millions and billions,
for generous pardon in the name of national security, national
interest, or national reconciliation is the only outcome for
monumental crimes when all loot'.

The
new “wine drinker” in turn was,
and is, being guided by the same hectoring
hegemons [31] [32] [33] [34] who crafted and led the
American foreign policy in the decimation of Afghanistan and Iraq, as
expected – and so brazenly at times that there is no need to
even hide that fact from the public – when Musharraf very well
could have implemented all of the afore-stated recommendations for
the genuine protection of Pakistan, as he enjoyed absolute power and
the public would have welcomed his moves against the hectoring
hegemons with open arms! Therefore, the lame surprise as demonstrated
in this news
report, aptly titled “Benazir’s
promise remains unfulfilled”
[35], is at best – well what can one say that
hasn't already been said about the press! Pakistani media is now but
a distant reflection of the American media eagerly galloping down the
same path. See Chapters 4,
6,
and 7
of my book “Prisoners
of the Cave” for a better understanding of what one
is likely to see more and more of in Pakistan! [36]

If
all this prescience is such advanced rocket science, how is it that
an ordinary plebeian, with only a computer and an internet
connection, can figure it all out, including the solution space, and
none of the profound intelligentsia and the
press in Pakistan can? The answer must be that we are a well
deserving nation ready to be replaced by a better peoples – as
per the promise of the Qur'an! But wait – I am not ready to be
replaced, nor am I willing to accept that verdict, and neither are
the 200 million Pakistanis suffering under the yoke of the handful of
co-opted praetorian ruling elite of Pakistan! “Voluntary
Servitude” may indeed be our failing due to excessive
misplaced hope, but is that as criminally culpable as the tyrants who
criminally rule over us by exploiting that failing? Being a victim is
not a crime, even if being a foolish one repeatedly is reprehensible!

Under
such a torpid existence of the patiently servile
populace forever controlled by different flavored praetorian
tyrants serving only the larger
geopolitical interests under
Machiavellianly crafted, political-science based, Western
state-craft, it is only the perverse insanity of "Balance
of Terror" [37] that can “free” the
common man without him expending his own efforts to break his “hope”
driven “voluntary servitude”! For at least, under the
“balance of terror” doctrine, he becomes as “free”
to survive as the poor beetle enslaved
between two hungry scorpions. The astute beetle
can construct some space to still breathe and live in that
precariously balanced time-space continuum! In a world where one's
very existence is anathema to the 'ubermensch' hectoring hegemons,
and one's extinction is their planned endgame for population control
and elimination of a vast majority of “useless eaters”
from the planet, physical survival by hook or by crook must first
rationally precede any freedom from servitude. The latter struggle in
these times appears to be next to impossible task, with expert and
sophisticated global masters deftly managing “hope”
driven populations into a permanent state of “Voluntary
Servitude” – by trickling some minimal level of
sustenance down their throats to not cause all loss of “hope”
and the concomitant violent riots when it's
not needed – while cleverly inhibiting the rise of any popular
leadership (or dissemination of knowledge of what's in store for
them) that can genuinely lead them to the contrary!

Therefore,
“balance of terror” forms an imperative doctrine of
urgent survival conveniently not examined in political science
discourses, never mind the global press, but is the only realizable
and efficacious solution-space taught by nature itself for the times
when 'ubermensch' hectoring hegemons rule the roost. See Project
Humanbeingsfirst's August and September 2008 reports
“Georgia-Russia:
It's a Classic Brzezinski Project!” [38] and
“Hegemony
is as old as mankind” [39] respectively, for how
aggressive (i.e., non-passive) posturing between titans can
temporarily reprieve an almost sure to be decimated nation on the
'Grand Chessboard! And if played astutely – as Russia appears
to be doing by announcing the stationing of its largest nuclear armed
warship in the Caribbean
waters [40] and its anti-submarine aircraft at the
Venezuelan
airport [41] – permanently reprieve
it, and all others as well.

An
effective counter to the IMF/WB/NATO and the dollar-hegemony, by SCO
for instance, under an uncompromising
leadership from Russia, China, India, Iran, Venezuela,
et. al., while simultaneously enabling the United States to actually
bring her coveted SPP into fruition through her own crafty
shenanigans, can give reprieve to all servile client-states
of the Global South without a masses' destructive uncontrolled
revolution when the “hope” threshold is finally breached.
The SPP prematurely being forced to create the North American Union,
by other nations outside the Pax Americana forcing a dollar crisis
upon it before it is ready, can be the best reprieve for the world.
Provided of course, the rest of the planet is empowered to astutely
dump the dollar before the dollar dumps them! The guns at China's and
Middle East nations' throats remain there mainly to prevent that very
act of defiance. America's creditors are targeted
to remain patiently holding onto their dollar reserves until the
opportune time for the United States, as the new North American
Union, to adopt the new yet to be introduced Amerio.
Thus in one fell swoop, the richest nation on Earth intends to not
only write off all its debts, backed with big guns, but also
(selectively) crash all the Asian creditor nations' economies. Much
use is Confederate currency today, except in a museum.

This
is the un-stated purpose behind Iranian President Ahmadinejad's
bold suggestion in the last SCO meeting on August
28, 2008“Iran's suggestion is to use the
currencies of the SCO states in transactions between members of the
organization, ... Such a measure will help maintain and strengthen
the value of the foreign exchange reserves of member states. The
organization can also devise a long term plan to study the
feasibility of using a single currency in the future”, in
order to preempt these nations' growing supply of future
toilet-paper! [42]

This
gambit of prematurely forcing the Hectoring Hegemons' already
pre-planned “revolutionary time” to make possible what
would otherwise be “inconceivable in
normal times” – in other words, turning the tables on
the Hectoring Hegemons with their own devilish weapon – is now
perhaps the only realistic way to motivate the “Prisoners of
the Cave” out of their “Voluntary Servitude” to
standup for the sanctity of their own nation.

The
same patriotic fervor which indoctrinates
the public into “United We Stand”, can also create active
resistance among the same peoples who love their country so blindly
that they are willing to acquiesce to the merciless killing of other
'lesser' humanity in the absurdity of preemptive 'self-defense'! No
patriotic public in the entire pluralistic multicultural America, no
matter how indoctrinated, will voluntarily accept a North American
Union, a loss of their beloved America that was hitherto fully
defined by the Monroe Doctrine of four well defined borders. And
forcing this union upon the peoples through martial law remaining the
only choice available to the hectoring hegemons, will finally align
the American public's patriotism with the rest of the world's
interests! In that reprieve scenario – a
ransom from extinction through full spectrum alliances by the rest of
the world – new leaders among the hope-driven populace all
across the world might yet be born under these “revolutionary
times”, who can eventually lead their servile populations into
aborting their “Voluntary Servitude”!
While one might perhaps call this logic perversely “hope”
based, the history of the world, as is the history of the American
Revolution (see Patrick Henry's speech below), is also testament to
courageous leaders often arising among a fed-up public mainly at
crises times when there is no “hope” left.

In
a calculated play of astute political science against the devilish
one, the same manipulative tools can serve both masters on the 'Grand
Chessboard', not just the hectoring hegemons! Unfortunately, its
efficacy lies solely with state-actors, institutions, and apparatus.
Therefore, ordinary masses under astute political leadership can
actually directly play in that space by efficaciously
engaging the state in order to throw-off
the yolk of their “Voluntary Servitude” as explained by
Project Humanbeingsfirst in its numerous
[43] reports
[44].

“Hope”
– the eternal friend and the perennial enemy of man! Hope is
what empirically subverts us from becoming the so called
“Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”,
and lulls us into inaction even as it enables us to survive the
darkest of times without despondency! Like a snake's venom, both a
poison and an antidote, “hope” is what co-opts us to
become less than animals by falsely leading us into losing our basic
instincts to be free from servitude under some fuzzy higher cerebral
function of optimism that we seem to have acquired from who knows
where over the eons of supposed evolution of our species! There are
however no vestiges of such an abstraction in the Darwinian worldview
of how man might have descended from the lower beings. No other
living creature possesses it, in any amount. It is characteristically
a human trait! Where does “hope” spring from? Did god
implant it in us? Or did the devil? When is it god's work, when is it
the devil's, and how is it an evolutionary gift that leaves no trace
in other species, but is present in all of humankind on all
continents? Is there a “hope” gene?

Regardless,
it is quite evident that it is mainly the deprivation of “hope”
that enables one to abandon “Voluntary Servitude”. Be it
towards the despondency of the weak, and hence they perish. Or be it
towards the assertion of fight-back by the strong – who have
had it up to their neck and are not willing to take it anymore as
they are going to perish anyway, who are left with no hope of being
rescued by anyone else and have nothing further to lose by standing
up – by their minimally copying the instinctive
behavior [45] of the free animals! The courageous history
of mankind is evidence that it is only when there is no hope of
rescue, or of the suffocating conditions ameliorating, that
“Voluntary Servitude” ends!

This
was indeed the premise behind the famous speech given by Patrick
Henry on March
23, 1775 [46] when he hath proclaimed: “Is life
so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” A
fuller quote would be more instructive:

“There is no longer any room
for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate
those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long
contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in
which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged
ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest
shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An
appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They
tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger?

Will it be the next week, or the
next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a
British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather
strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of
effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the
delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand
and foot?

Sir, we are not weak if we make a
proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our
power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty,
and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any
force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not
fight our battles alone.

There is a just God who presides
over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight
our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the
strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Besides, sir, we have no election.
If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire
from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of
Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let
it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate
the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace.
The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north
will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!

Our brethren are already in the
field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What
would they have?

Is life so dear, or peace so
sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it, Almighty God! I know
not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death!”

Only
a year later, the intimate realization that “There is no
longer any room for hope”,
led to a Declaration which today, surely still resonates, albeit
mutely, in the hearts of some, and sends a winter's chill down the
spine of every despot and demagogue:

“When
in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or
to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.

But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security.”

Wherefore
such a people? Only whence bereft of hope, and only when courageously
led! Or at least, that is what the empirical history of mankind
suggests.

Epilogue

Elevating
oneself to man's ultimate destiny of “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”,
i.e., the highest spiritual state of “Irfan”,
which Islam axiomatically teaches is the ultimate “khud-muktar”
man of God's creation, wherein – as artistically put by that
famous 'Poet of the East' – the Creator too favors the “best
of creation” by asking the “khud-muktar” man
what might he desire as his destiny before apportioning the same to
him, is a far cry! Muslims apparently are forever dreaming of “Irfan”
– at least the ones in our beloved 'Land of the Pure', with
every Pakistani serf awaiting a savior, every oppressed
“waiting for Allah”, all patiently bearing their burden
resigned to their destiny of toil and hunger, but still full of hope
for some miraculous rescue, and seeking comfort in the vision of a
rewarding after-life for their stoic forbearance
in this ill-fated one – while we, the egotistical us, cannot
even live up to the level of exercising the innate desire to be free
as shown by the animals! Forget about other useful
self-defense [47] taught us by the supposed lower order
beings! Whence “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”?

Surely
it must have been a metaphor for some other man yet to be born! A man
who will finally understand the gift of “hope” – to
protect one from despondency – and yet not be unduly saddled by
it into “Voluntary Servitude”, as beautifully and
succinctly spelled out for him in the last two of the four short
verses of Surah Asr
in the Qura’an! While the Western
Hegemons [48] cleverly hijack the concept of jihad to
create “militant Islam”, “radical Islam”, and
“Islamism”, and mindless “native informants”
par excellence continually bleat it for
multiplied effect in asinine writings such as “Between
Imperialism and Islamism” [49] that keep the
core-lie of “Islamism” intact in dutiful service to their
higher masters (or perhaps only serving them in pathetic ignorance as
patsies), its real meaning becomes imprisoned in
La Boétie's “Voluntary Servitude” until
hopelessness, with little possibility of
parole
[50] during our lifetime!

Yes,
“happy-happy” indeed on the long road of voluntary
serfdom into oblivion.

[10]
The Nation, August 28, 2008, ‘Industry suffering due to power
shortage’ in Lahore
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Business/28-Aug-2008/Industry-suffering-due-to-power-shortage

[11]
Business Recorder, August 29, 2008, 'Business activities come to a
halt: power outages in various parts of Faisalabad'
http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=801230

'"A horse-drawn black chariot, decorated with the national flag, then
carried the new president a short distance before he disembarked to
inspect the troops. Zardari kissed his son Bilawal - the chairman of the
PPP - and bowed at the feet of his father, Hakim Ali Zardari, before
being embraced by his daughters, Bakhtawar and Asifa. ...

The president was given a guard of honour by a smartly turned out
contingent of the three services at the main gate of the Presidency when
he arrived for the ceremony in the traditionally decorated buggy.
Present at the gate was his father Hakim Ali Zardari, son Bilawal,
daughters Bakhtawar, Asifa, sister-in-law Sanam Bhutto and personal
staff received him.

Like a deferential son he touched the feet of his father Hakim Ali
Zardari, an elderly politician of Sindh who kissed Asif Zardari on both
the cheeks and then shook hands with him. Asif Zardari’s son Bilawal was
clad in dark blue shalwar and long kurta while both his sisters were
wearing shalwar kameez. President Zardari kissed his son and daughters
affectionately. Pakistan High Commissioner in the United Kingdom Wajid
Shamsul Hasan was also present at the main gate of the Presidency. Asif
Zardari inspected the guard of honour gracefully with confidence visible
on his face."

[47]
Video 'Battle at Kruger', please watch this 8-minute inspiring video
that puts “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat” to shame, which,
as of this date, has been watched at least 36,687,965 times,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
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